Read from InputStream in multiple formats

Question

I\'m trying to write a class that reads HTTP requests and responses and parses them. Since the headers are ordinary text it seemed easiest to read them using a Buffe

Answer 1

If you don't want to use a ready HTTP client/server implementation like Konstantin proposed, DataInputStream has a readLine method. It is deprecated since it isn't doing a proper conversion (mostly a direct byte -> char casting conversion), but I think for pure ASCII header lines you should be good.

(You should put a BufferedInputStream under you DataInputStream, since readLine reads each byte individually.)